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:package: Turn Electron Apps into Windows AppX Packages
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Shipping 3rd party installers #41

Closed black-snow closed 7 years ago

black-snow commented 7 years ago

Hey there,

currently I'm shipping a 3rd party installer with my application. It's run during setup. Do you see any way to include that installer when packing for the windows store?

My best idea right now is to somehow ship the installer (msi/exe) and explicitly run it on first app launch.

felixrieseberg commented 7 years ago

The Windows Store is your new installer :wink:. You can just package up the final result - for that, you might want to run your installer inside the fully virtualized conversion, which takes your MSI and turns it into a package. You won't need electron-windows-store for that, but I'd rather recommend the best tool for the job.

For more information, check this out: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-run-desktop-app-converter

black-snow commented 7 years ago

Sadly I'm tied to a 32bit version of windows 10 - afaik the converter requires a 64bit version.

The machine has a 64bit chip, though. Do you know if I can run the converter inside an unregistered 64bit virtual machine win10? An ugly workaround but this might work. @felixrieseberg

felixrieseberg commented 7 years ago

I'm actually not sure (32 hosting 64 vm sounds scary), but it's worth a try?